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SEELEY LAKE – At their Dec. 20 meeting, the Seeley Lake Sewer District Board continued discussing the expired interlocal agreement it has with Missoula County and it was revealed that the current District Manager provided through that agreement will be leaving. The board also received a request from developers of a proposed RV Park for engineering data in order to make a proposal to include the Park in Phase 1 of the collection system. In other business the board discussed User Agreements, District by-laws and received word that the district i...
MISSOULA – Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Game Warden Bill Koppen received FWP's Officer of the Year award at the Missoula County Exchange Club's 46th Annual Officer of the Year Banquet. Koppen was among nine other officers from other city, county, state and federal agencies in Missoula County who received the award. Banquet Committee chair Larry Anderson said the purpose of the banquet is to honor area law enforcement officers. It has also become a major fundraiser for the Exchange Club a...
SEELEY LAKE - Lights adorning Highway 83 and last minute visits from Santa Claus made Christmas in Seeley Lake merry and bright....
MISSOULA – With each team trading their only losses for the season, the Seeley Lake Elementary Eagles boys basketball team faced the Potomac Pioneers Dec. 18 at the Adam's Center in Missoula for the Copper League Small Schools Championship. Despite the Eagles trying to close the gap in the fourth quarter, the Pioneers maintained their lead and took the Championship 24-13. Both teams won one game of tournament play before meeting at the championship. The Eagles beat MIS and the Pioneers took DeSm...
KALISPELL — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is hosting four upcoming public meetings to discuss deer populations and potential future management strategies for hunting seasons in northwest Montana. FWP Region 1 staff are hoping to engage the public in an open discussion about the future direction for deer hunting after back-to-back harsh winters impacted fawn recruitment and a low hunter harvest this fall. The meetings are not formal public hearings and will feature informational presentations on historical and current white-tailed and mule d...
SEELEY LAKE – My name is Pat Goodover. I was elected as president of the Seeley Lake Sewer Board. I want to introduce myself to you and reach out to you. There is a lot of confusion and some anger about the sewer plans. There are also some outright false statements being raised and these need to be addressed. My goal is to make things as transparent as possible. That’s where I need your help. Please send me your thoughts, questions, concerns or comments. My dedicated email address for you to use is pat.goodover@gmail.com. If you have que...
OVANDO & SEELEY LAKE – Margaret Bauer said her family likes to make gingersnaps. She said, “We like the smell; it fills the house. Everybody likes to eat them for snacks and we give them as gifts.” Shawna Jarrell said her grandma’s punch always makes Christmas Day special. It’s a concoction of Hawaiian punch, Kool-Aid, 7-Up and orange juice. For Ovando’s Fly family, Christmas dinner is always surf and turf – some kind of seafood and steak. For Sharon Jacobs it’s apple pie that makes the Christmas meal special. She added proudly, “I mak...
Beginning in 1933, the Forest Service began an intensive winter game study in the South Fork of the Flathead to determine the number of big game, forage use, snow depth, temperature, migrations, etc. Within a few years the study included the Swan and Middle Fork drainages. Forest Service ranger Henry Thol was in charge of the local winter game patrol in 1935. He was a rugged outdoorsman in his 50s who was experienced in mountain travel. Assistant ranger 27-year-old Norman Schappacher spent much...
SWAN VALLEY - Dozens of volunteers gathered Dec. 22 to help install the new Swan Valley Community Ice Skating Rink in the arena north of the Swan Valley Community Hall on Highway 83. The Swan Valley Emergency Services Volunteer Fire Department flooded the 60 x 100 foot rink, a joint project spearheaded by the Swan Valley Community Foundation and Swan Valley Elementary School Parent Teacher Association. Foundation member Ken Donovan said nearly enough money has been raised to cover the...
Too often we see the results of gridlock and partisan shenanigans in Washington DC. Efforts are focused solely on beating the other side, and not on representing the people in passing budgets and good policy. Power is centralized with party bosses and lobbyists, and not with the people. This results in "Continuing Resolutions", "Government Shutdowns" and chaos. Unfortunately, there are those that believe that this is how things should be run in Montana politics. The Montana Constitution, as...
SEELEY LAKE – With Christmas music filling the air and lights flashing on the fire trucks, the Seeley Lake Fire Department volunteers and auxiliary members took to the streets of Seeley Lake the evening of Dec. 22 delivering gifts to the 19 girls and boys that were listed on their Angel Tree. Additionally, the annual Giving Tree, organized by the women of Mountain Lakes Presbyterian Church, blessed 55 children. This year some of the givers were recipients when they were children. This was the f...
SEELEY LAKE – With no music teacher or program this fall at Seeley Lake Elementary, the junior high drama class promised a Christmas play before the winter break. However, thanks to the staff, parents and students, the SLE Christmas Play expanded to a school-wide performance on Dec. 20 beginning with the junior high play, "Lights...Camera...Action" followed by the rest of the students singing. In the play "Lights...Camera...Action" by Sally Carpenter, Director J.D. (Cadence Mauldin) had no p...
Let's talk about one of the most frequent reasons people visit their doctor – back pain. Statisticians tell us that one in five clinic visits are related to back pain and I believe it! I think every one of us, at least at sometime in their lives, will suffer with back pain. Some people suffer with chronic and debilitating back pain. This is something that is hard to treat and even harder to deal with. Fortunately though, most episodes of back pain will resolve. Back pain can be caused from a n...
From a commercial I saw once long ago...(from memory)... How long can a person live without food? 10-14 days How long can a person live without water? 3-5 days How long can a person live without air? 3-5 minutes How long can a person live without hope? ….. Circumstances in each of these can produce different results but the end-point is clear enough. In deference to that, it is no secret that this time of year is concomitantly both the most joyous and the most difficult for many of us. As of this reading, Christmas will have passed and New Y...
The carol "O Holy Night" is a favorite at Christmas time, especially when sung by someone who can, as Huffington Post puts it, "raise the rafters on the '-vine' of 'Oh night di-.'" The song itself has a controversial history of highs and lows, ecclesiastical machinations, popular support and even, as the story goes, the ability to stop a war. The song originated in 1847 in the small French town of Roquemaure when a priest asked town poet Placide Cappeau to create a poem for Christmas. Cappeau ag...
GREENOUGH – It's been several years since Sunset School had enough students to host their own Holiday play. This year with 10 students from kindergarten through sixth grade, supervising teacher Toni Hatten said she was excited to bring back the tradition with "What Could Go Wrong the Night Before Christmas?" by Kim Kao Hines. For the past several years, Sunset School joined Ovando School for their holiday production. However this year, Hatten said Sunset "brought it home to Greenough." P...
OVANDO – Parents, relatives, visitors and a number of younger siblings dressed in holiday attire packed the Ovando School gym to see the student production of "The Rented Christmas" Dec. 20. The play's story revolves around rich, but lonely, bachelor John Dale (Aiden McNally) who decides he wants the kind of warm family Christmas his business partner has each year. So Dale goes to the rental store and orders a very specific Christmas, one that includes a decorated house and tree, a full Christma...
SALMON PRAIRIE - The three Salmon Prairie Elementary School students, two eighth graders and one in kindergarten, produced and starred in their version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." They entitled their play "Scrooge" which was performed Dec. 20 for family and friends. Their teacher Holl Hubbard said that the three Salmon Prairie students wrote their own script after reading the original story. Hubbard said this gives them more of an idea what the whole story is about instead of just...
On the list of ideas for tackling the twin challenges that plague Montana workers - scarce rural jobs and low wages even in cities - telework is close to the top. As better internet access connects even far-flung rural communities with the rest of the world, it seems to promise Montanans a way to have their cake and eat it too: a fulfilling career at a city wage without having to leave the Last Best Place. The notion has been embraced by business leaders and officeholders across the state, most...
SEELEY LAKE – Retired Seeley-Swan High School music teacher Bob Green used the phrase “an awkward situation” to express the condition SSHS found itself in at the beginning of the school year. A small group of students wanted to enroll in choral singing. An even smaller group wanted to enroll in band, but the school had no instructor available to teach either one. The possibility of the traditional winter concert taking place was not even a consideration. Yet on Dec. 18, an audience filled the a...
SEELEY LAKE - The Seeley-Swan Blackhawks and Lady Blackhawks closed out 2018 with a victory over the Clark Fork Coop Mountain Cats at home Dec. 20. The Boys dominated the Mountain Cats in the first half running up an 18-point lead. The Blackhawks held the Cats off in the second half to a final score of 69-49. Chance Johnson pounded in 27 points to lead the Boys. Owen Mercado and Dakota Wood scored into the double digits as well with 18 and 14 points respectively. The Lady Blackhawks had a tighte...
POTOMAC - The 2018 Potomac School Holiday Program Dec. 19 brought more than 200 people to the Potomac Greenough Community Center including students, their families, community members, teachers and friends. The evening began with fifth grader Kaycee Salter playing a Christmas medley on the piano while the guests were being seated. For the second year Lauren Nordberg emceed the program...
Winter break activities at Seeley Lake Elementary SEELEY LAKE - Seeley Lake Elementary will offer special 21st Century Winter Break activities for SLE students of all ages from Dec. 26-28 and Jan. 2-4 from 12 - 3 p.m. Activities include arts and crafts, outdoor adventure, games and sports. Meet in the SLE lobby/gym. SLE will provide a snack. Children should bring a water bottle and appropriate gear for playing outside for part of the time. Big Larch main closure lifted - Small area remains closed SEELEY LAKE – As of Friday, Dec. 21, most of Big...
